Stanley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Brown (1972), Hobbs v. State (1969)
51 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Tait v. State · Luther v. State · Ule v. State · Kondrup v. State · Day v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The same general question has been raised many times in criminal prosecutions where the alleged crime is the doing of a thing or the possessing of a thing which under certain circumstances may be lawful, but which is alleged in the particular case to be unlawful.... When an offense is created by statute and the same or other statutes make exceptions thereto it is not necessary for the state to negate the exceptions by ■ stating and proving that the defendant does not come within the same. It is, therefore, not incumbent upon the state in a prosecution for the unlawful possession of narcotics to prove all possible exceptions or to by affirmative evidence negate every conceivable hypothesis by which the appellant might have gained his possession lawfully.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . A statute is not unconstitutional by reason of indefiniteness if it is capable of intelligent construction and interpretation by persons who possess but ordinary comprehension, if its language conveys an adequate description of the evil intended to be prohibited.” Stanley v. State (1969), 252 Ind. 37, 42 , 245 N.E.2d 149, 152 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.